Ender's Game

11/01/13

Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield star in a scene from the movie "Enders' Game."

Enlightened and well-wrought science-fiction movie, based on
the prescient 1985 book of the same name, about a 12-year-old
(Asa Butterfield) chosen to lead Earth's military forces
against an alien race that 50 years earlier tried to colonize
the planet, resulting in the deaths of millions. Mentored by
a bellicose colonel (Harrison Ford) and the hero of the first
invasion (Ben Kingsley), the boy possesses both compassion
and strong tactical skills. Director and screenwriter Gavin
Hood highlights a salubrious message about the moral pitfalls
of war and deploys elegant special effects to dramatize the
virtual nature of how it is conducted in the near future.

Watch out for: Scenes of fighting and
bullying behavior among teenagers, several classroom slurs,
some scary imagery, some mild innuendo, and one use of crass
language.

Rated: A-II, adults and adolescents; MPAA:
PG-13, parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be
inappropriate for children under 13.